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Tom Tiffany: “There's a visa called the H1B visa and it's for specialty…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Congressman Tom Tiffany Joins DrydenWire Live! | Wisconsin Politics August 2025

Published | Video Starts at 12:55

This is the Colleges for the American People act or the CAP Act Act. For people who didn't see that, what is that about? And why should they care? So There's a visa called the H1B visa and it's for specialty occupations. There's 65,000 people that can come into America on H1B visas each year. That's the threshold is 65,000. But there is an exception for universities. And here in Wisconsin, the universities have taken advantage of it. (12:55–13:06)

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